Engaging residents and families in aged care facilities

该项目旨在通过开发和测试老年护理机构的创造性策略，调查居民和家庭在沟通影响精神、情感和行为的药物方面的参与。该项目期望在社会文化、环境和人际关系的挑战和机遇的动态背景下产生关于居民和家庭沟通的新知识。该项目的预期成果包括增强能力，使居民和家庭能够参与缩小沟通差距。这应该会带来很大的好处，因为人们更多地了解了如何以及在什么情况下，在不同情况下，居民和家庭可以进行药物决策。

This project aims to investigate resident and family engagement in communicating about medicines that affect the mind, emotions and behaviour, by developing and testing creative strategies in aged care facilities. This project expects to generate new knowledge about resident and family communication within a dynamic context of sociocultural, environmental and interpersonal challenges and opportunities. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced capacity to enable resident and family participation in bridging communication gaps. This should provide significant benefits, in terms of increased understandings about how and under what circumstances, medicines decision making can occur with residents and families in diverse situations.